Courses by The Content Technologist/Your Content is Your Marketing

  • $500

Your Content is Your Marketing

  • Course
  • 12 Lessons

Reach new audiences without a hefty advertising budget or an SEO specialist on retainer. Structure and position your content for organic discovery without compromising quality.

Contents

Unit one: The building blocks of discoverable content

What does it mean to make content more discoverable? Is it the same thing as brand awareness? In these videos, we'll discuss the foundations of structured content and discovery and look at how print media can inform how we structure digital media (yes, really).

A brief history of discoverable content
1.2 Getting to know the knowledge graph
1.3 Busting myths some myths about SEO
1.4 Search vs. social algorithms
1.5 structured vs. unstructured content
1.6 Entities, equity, and natural language processing

Unit two: Preparing for and executing The Two-hour Taxonomy

In this unit, we'll go over the foundation of taxonomies in general, get our taxonomy research poop in a group, and execute the Two-hour Taxonomy exercise. Get ready to nail down your core terms!

2.1: What is a taxonomy?
2.2: Review Your Research
2.3: The two-hour taxonomy

Unit three: Using a sitewide taxonomy: Menus, homepage, folders and structure

Your information architecture matters.

3.1: Organizing your top navigation: Audience-first, jobs to be done, typical, and topical
3.2: Creating a topical navigation from your taxonomy
3.3: Incorporating your taxonomy into your homepage